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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

H. P. Lovecraft

Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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Children Philosophy Point Stick
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
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Appearance Capacity Degree Demand Imagination Life Reading
One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Awesome Impressive Production Terrible
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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Ancient Dreams Memories Mountain Ocean Ourselves Time
We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
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Animal Black Magic Darkness Night
The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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Beginning End Leaving Reading Story Strong
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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Human Myself Proud Respect Species
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Demand Enthusiasm Fear Myself Work
A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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Dog Exception Force Leaving Pity Sleep
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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Hero Poem Rhyme Success
I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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Beautiful Realism Thinking
Adulthood is hell.
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Adult Hell One Liner
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Course Fiction Formal Story Writing
The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
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Drama Element Greatness Play Reason Terrible Time Universe
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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Black Ignorance Live Ourselves Travel
The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.
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Culture Desire Honor Man Nation

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